The Flywheel

Meeting of July 2nd

Club Dark - Enjoy the July 4 Weekend!

THE CLUB WILL BE DARK JULY 2ND IN CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND. See you July 9 for President Baer's first Splashdown meeting and a post July 4 celebration with the USS Hornet Museum!

Last Meeting: June 25th

Welcome, Invocation, Thought for the Day

Given the large amount of nonsense and BS scheduled for today’s meeting it started more or less on time with almost X Prez Glenn
ringing the bell for the last time and his lovely daughter, Camryn
Daggs, leading the club in the Pledge of Allegiance. Philosopher-
Entrepreneur Henry Kelman's thought for the day: "Out with the old, in with the new, bye bye Glenn".

Visiting Rotarians

With the exception of Glenn’s lovely children, Camryn and Kade, your slightly late Scribe did not notice any other guests.

Rotarians with Guests

None of these either, unless you want to include the elusive Rotarian and almost X-Prez Glenn’s, x-partner – in - law Enos Johnson.

Sunshine Report

When this reporter finally got his pen working, Sunshine Reporter Bill ‘Bill K.’ Koziol
was performing a memory experiment in which members were asked
questions about Glenn’s many attributes and qualities. Each time
they ‘got it right’ they received from Sidney ‘Of the Internet’ Chauvin a shot of something reported to be from John Nicol’s
past called ‘Between the Sheets’. While no one seemed to suffer from
ill effects caused by ‘Between the Sheets’, there were some pretty
interesting answers to Bill K’s queries, a sample of which are
remembered here:

What is Glenn’s largest body part? – Feet (Someone else yelled out ‘head’).

What famous Hollywood personality is Glenn related to? - Charlie Chan (This
was seen as a trick question as there were four different Charlie
Chan’s over the years but we suspect that it is the Swedish actor
Warren Oland. Marilyn Chambers was not the right answer.)

How many of the traditional virtues does Glenn regularly exhibit? – Three, (they weren’t listed).

Announcements

Special Events

Demotion (see Program)

Recognitions

But not the end of the program as Glenn was recognized as a model
‘big brother’ by his younger brother Victor in an open letter read by
Pam. For his part, Glenn recognized his Board of Directors (Past Prez Mark Howe, VP Alan Baer, Treasurer David Brown, Secretary Jonathan Lawlis, Sergeant-at-arms John Nicol, Sid Chauvin, Josh Surowitz, Nick Despota, Liliane Koziol, Rafael Madrigal, and Bill Koziol) and Program Director Jim Young and Back-Up Pam Jones, for their service to him and the club giving them all a nice set of Rotary cuff links. He also challenged President Alan Baer
to get a long sleeve shirt to go with the cuff links. Glenn thanked the
whole club for supporting his term recognizing that as a single parent
and businessman he could not have done what he did without a lot of
support. As a parting memento, Pam pinned Glenn with his Past President
Pin with the comment that it is the first badge with his name spelled
right. All those years on the RPD he was Glenn Diggs..

In extra special recognition, Glenn held up as Rotarians of the Year, Erle Brown for his efforts to advance the Rotary International Foundation and Laura Kuhn
for her exemplary support of the Nevin Center Project and all things
Rotary that benefitted from her professional communication and
display/advertizing skills.

As the Program sank slowly into 1:30 adjournment, X-Prez Pam thanked
X-Prez Mark Howe for delegating the Program to her and Mark Howe
thanked Pam for doing such a good job. With that, New President
Alan Baer rang his first bell, ending one Rotary year and starting
another.

Norm's Nonsense

-A guy walks into a bar with his
dog and says to the bartender: "Will you give me a free drink if I make
this dog talk?" Bartender: "Sure, let's hear him." The guy says to his
dog: "What is over our head?" "The dog says: "RRRoof!" The guy then
asks the dog: "What is sandpaper like?" The dog says: "RRRuff!"
Bartender: "Now wait a minute." The guy says: "Wait till you hear this,
and asks the dog" "Who was the greatest baseball player of all time?"
The dog says: "RRRuth!" With that the bartender threw them out of the
bar. Once outside the dog said to his owner? "Should I have said
DiMaggio?"
–Norm Foley

PROGRAM

Demotion of President Glenn Daggs

Our special event of the day was Rotary Productions presentation (Pam Jones Producer, Lillian Koziol
Director) of “TRUE LIES – The Secret Life of G”. The story begins in
April 1958 at Glenn’s humble beginnings, a baby with his eye already on
bigger things. From baby to casting call to Ivory Snow to (Do you believe this?) Ivory Snow endorsements with well, you guessed it, Marilyn Chambers.

Glenn
quickly moved through the sitcoms of the life and the 1960s &‘70s
into high school. They say flattery is the highest form of compliment
and it is fair to say that Glenn’s ‘afro’, sung the praises of Anglia
Davis. As a young adult Glenn’s continuing fascinations with Hollywood
and TV identities took him into the action genre, shows where a guy
with ‘fro has a place to go, Mod Squad & Miami Vice.

Did somebody say something about ‘x’-prez Daggs. What about ‘xxx’-prez Daggs? (Do you believe this?) Glenn
graduating from action TV to ‘action’ movies to blacplotation flicks to
where the real action is, the Richmond Police Department. While Glenn’s
original request to be put on the vice squad was denied, he received
extensive experience in police communications in the RPD typing pool.
Glenn’s communication skills became so impressive he was moved to the
narcotics Task Force in the apparent belief that, with his
partner-in-law Enos, he would be able to talk people out of lives of
crime. What is most amazing about Glenn’s time on the Task Force is
that he (and maybe Enos too) actually did ‘talk’ at least one person
out of the ‘hood. That would be Rapper Rodney Alamo ‘Disco Alamo’ Brown
who was so impressed by Glenn and company that he wrote a song of the
same name about the “Task Force” that became commercially successful.
In the biggest surprise of this Demotion, X-Prez Pam rang up Disco
Alamo at his home in Hawaii. Disco wished Glenn well and thanked him
for “showing the community some respect”, saying they’d get together
the next time he’s in Richmond. Glenn thanked Disco for the kind words
and said he’d bring him to Rotary ‘next time you’re in town’. (Do you believe this?)

After
the RPD and a stint teaching policing at the Napa Police Academy, Glenn
opened his business OSS International combining his first love of
celebrity and entertainers with his second love, protective authority.
This was all documented with pictures provided by X-Prez Pam showing;
Glenn protecting Oprah; Glenn protecting Bill Gates, and; Glenn
protecting HRH Queen Elizabeth II (Do you believe this?)

– Rotating Editor, Jim Young

Upcoming Programs

July 9
Bob Goodwin of the USS Hornet Museum will describe
the historic role of the highly decorated aircraft
carrier Hornet, home-ported in Alameda.